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“It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren’t true. All things are knowable and every opinion on any subject is as good as any other.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge, and yet been so resistant to learning anything”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“But science is a process, not a conclusion. Science subjects itself to constant testing by a set of careful rules under which theories can only be displaced by better theories.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Plugging words into a browser window isn't research: it's asking questions of programmable machines that themselves cannot actually understand human beings.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Americans have reached a point where ignorance, especially of anything related to public policy, is an actual virtue. To reject the advice of experts is to assert autonomy, a way for Americans to insulate their increasingly fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong about anything. It is a new Declaration of Independence: no longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren’t true.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“«То, что все мы сейчас ощущаем – это постоянное давление, заставляющее нас владеть достаточной информацией, всегда, иначе нас назовут культурно безграмотными. Чтобы мы могли выдержать мини-презентацию, деловое совещание, посещение офисной кухни, коктейльную вечеринку. Чтобы мы могли оставлять посты, твиты, чаты, комментарии, тексты, доказывая тем самым, что мы вроде как видели, читали, смотрели, слушали. То, что значимо для нас, утопает в петабайтах информации. И нам вовсе необязательно потреблять этот контент из первых рук. Достаточно лишь знать, что он существует – выразить свое мнение по этому вопросу и суметь поучаствовать в беседе на эту тему. Мы подходим опасно близко к созданию поддельной осведомленности, которая в действительности является новой моделью невежества».
Karl Taro Greenfield, “Faking Cultural Literacy,” New York Times онлайн, 24 мая 2014.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
Karl Taro Greenfield, “Faking Cultural Literacy,” New York Times онлайн, 24 мая 2014.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Knowing things is not the same as understanding them. Comprehension is not the same thing as analysis. Expertise is not a parlor game played with factoids.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Колледжи стали заложниками студентов, которые требуют, чтобы их чувства были превыше всех остальных соображений. Они, несомненно, убеждены в своем праве требовать этого, потому что привыкли так жить, в терапевтической культуре, которая не оставляет ни одной невысказанной мысли и ни одного невыраженного чувства.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“More important and more relevant to the death of expertise, how
ever, is that conspiracy theories are deeply attractive to people who
have a hard time making sense of a complicated world and who have
no patience for less dramatic explanations. Such theories also appeal
to a strong streak of narcissism: there are people who would choose
to believe in complicated nonsense rather than accept that their own
circumstances are incomprehensible, the result of issues beyond their
intellectual capacity to understand, or even their own fault.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, 2nd Edition
ever, is that conspiracy theories are deeply attractive to people who
have a hard time making sense of a complicated world and who have
no patience for less dramatic explanations. Such theories also appeal
to a strong streak of narcissism: there are people who would choose
to believe in complicated nonsense rather than accept that their own
circumstances are incomprehensible, the result of issues beyond their
intellectual capacity to understand, or even their own fault.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, 2nd Edition
“This is erudition in the age of cyberspace: You surf until you reach the conclusion you're after. You click your way to validation, confusing the presence of a website with the plausibility of an argument.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Соединенные Штаты - это республика, в которой люди уполномочивают других принимать решения от их имени. Эти избранные представители не могут справляться со всеми вопросами и обращаются за помощью к экспертам и профессионалам. В противоположность мнению большинства людей, эксперты и политики - это разные люди. (...) Эксперты советуют. Избранные лидеры принимают решения.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Американцы сейчас уверены в том, что обладание равными правами в политической системе также означает, что мнение каждого человека по любому вопросу должно считаться равнозначным любому другому.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Online debates become personal, emotional, and irresolvable almost as soon as they begin.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Американцы уже больше не видят разницы между фразами "ты ошибаешься" и "ты глуп". Не соглашаться равносильно проявлению неуважения. Исправить другого значит оскорбить. А если ты отказываешься признать, что все точки зрения достойны рассмотрения, вне зависимости от того, насколько они фантастичны или безумны, значит ты зашоренный.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“В настоящее время уровень фундаментальных знаний среднестатистического американца так упал, что он пробил границу "невежественного человека", прошел черту "неверно информированного", а теперь катится в сторону "агессивно заблуждающегося". Люди не просто верят глупостям, они активно сопротивляются процессу познания и не хотят отказываться от своих неверных убеждений.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Глубоко укоренившиеся и обычно неизменные взгляды пользователей Интернета стали основой "закона Поммера", гласящего, что под влиянием Интернета, человек, у которого не было мнения по какому-то предмету, приобретает только неверное мнение по нему.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Самая главная проблема мгновенной коммуникации в том, что она мгновенная. И хоть Интернет позволяет общаться гораздо большему количеству людей - это однозначно новые исторические условия - возможность мгновенного общения любого человека с любым другим не всегда хорошая идея. Иногда людям нужно взять паузу и поразмышлять, дать себе время осмыслить информацию и переварить ее. Вместо этого Интернет становится ареной, где люди могут реагировать, не думая.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“There are signs of hope, even if they are small and inconstant. Illiberal populists, as it turns out, are pretty lousy at governing, especially during a crisis that demands a steady and stoic engagement with science. In the United States, in particular, voters saw a mismanaged pandemic become a politicized catastrophe that eventually inflicted a 9/11-level death toll almost every day, and as of this writing has killed more Americans than combat in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam combined.”
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
“These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge, and yet resistant to learn anything”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, 2nd Edition
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, 2nd Edition
“But if I am certain of anything, it is that it is well within our power as citizens to return to a more civic and more confident democratic life, if we so choose. We do not have to remain slaves to our anger and our fears. We do not have to destroy our own traditions and institutions out of rage and resentment. We do not have to live this way. That is why I wrote this book.”
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
“An uninformed judgement, even when right, is often less useful than a reasoned view, even when wrong, that can then be dissected, examined, and corrected.”
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“Americans now think of democracy as a state of actual equality, in which every opinion is as good as any other on almost any subject under the sun. Feelings are more important than facts: if people think vaccines are harmful, or if they believe that half of the US budget is going to foreign aid, then it is "undemocratic" and "elitist" to contradict them.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“When resentful laypeople demand that all marks of achievement, including expertise, be leveled and equalized in the name of "democracy" and "fairness", there is no hope for either democracy or fairnes. Everything becomes a matter of opinion, with all views dragged to the lowest common denominator in the name of equality.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Американскую культуру в особенности привлекает идея талантливого самоучки (противостоящего, скажем, экспертам и элитам), который может бросить вызов целым правительствам – и даже еще более крупным организациям – и победить.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“В настоящее время Соединенные Штаты - страна, зацикленная на преклонении перед собственным невежеством. (...) Мы гордимся своим незнанием.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“the defense of knowledge is integral to the defense of democracy.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
“Новая культура образования в Соединенных Штатах заключается в том, что каждый человек обязательно должен поступить в колледж. Данные культурные изменения важны для гибели экспертного знания, так как по мере того, как учебные программы разрастаются, отвечая запросам потребителей, школы становятся лжеуниверситетами, чьи дипломы свидетельствуют больше о подготовке, чем об обучении – два совершенно разных понятия, которые все больше сливаются в общественном сознании. В худшем случае дипломы не подтверждают ни обучение, ни подготовку, а только посещение. А порой и вовсе свидетельствуют лишь о своевременно вносимой плате за обучение.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Используйте источники, представляющие разные точки зрения. Разнообразьте свой рацион. Вы же не станете весь день есть одно и то же. А потому не используйте одни и те же источники медиа весь день. (...) Избегайте местечковости: попробуйте источники из разных стран, так как в них часто встречаются материалы или взгляды, о которых американцы даже не догадываются.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“Expertise is not a parlor trick played with factoids.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
“У каждого из нас есть врожденная и естественная склонность искать подтверждение тому, во что мы уже верим.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters




